Chapter 318: Siege

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The camp of the rebel army was about two or three miles away from the Taiping City Wall, and they had wanted to camp directly under the city shortly after they arrived, but they were beaten by the riflemen at the head of the city, so they simply retreated to a distance of two or three miles away.

Of course, this distance is safe, but the problem is also a lot of trouble, two or three miles is a considerable distance, if you walk at an ordinary walking speed, it will take at least half an hour to walk. Of course, if you run with it, of course, it will be much faster, but the problem is that if you run with a girl, not only will you consume your physical strength prematurely, but the cold air will take away a lot of heat, which is very luxurious for the cannon fodder who is hungry and poor. It is actually no different from letting them run two or three miles away from letting them walk slowly next to the firecracker, and perhaps fewer people will die by walking next to the firecracker, and the number of sudden deaths from hunger and cold along the way will certainly not be low.

"Let's go!" "Let's go!" "The opportunity to make a difference is right in front of you! Rush to the city, and the good days will come! "Hurry up, hurry up, go away! Do you want to live for 10,000 years? Don't go yet! The soldiers supervising the battle roared loudly, and the leather whips and wooden sticks in their hands waved from time to time, hitting the cannon fodder who walked "not fast enough" in front of them with a crisp sound, but the cannon fodder who walked in front did not walk fast, and the people behind naturally couldn't get up quickly, and soon the crowd was sluggish among the cannon fodder.

"Kill the officer! Divide the grain! "If you kill the officers and soldiers, you will have delicious food!" "That group of killers has everything! Eat and drink spicy food in the city every day, and no one cares about your life or death! A shout rang out from the Warlords, spurring the group of walking dead. After all, the cannon fodder is not the real walking dead, since they were caught, they have been living a life of not having enough food and clothing, life and death are not their own, and now they are even more numb because of the cold, and their brains are almost numb because of the cold.

"Good! The Heart of the Army is available! Wang Ziyong laughed a little smugly, and an officer beside him who was also wearing bright silver armor nodded again and again in admiration, "Today's city break is a foregone conclusion, congratulations to Wang Dashuai!" ”

"Good, good!" Wang Ziyong couldn't help but smile on his face, patted the officer on the shoulder, and said, "Not bad! Don't get mud brothers, stay until after the city is broken today, and celebrate with three days of looting! ”

"Thank you, Marshal!" Zhang Cunmeng, who was not in the mud, hurriedly bowed his hand to express his gratitude, and then said, "Dashuai, can you let the junior brother lead his subordinates to attack this first wave first?" ”

He had already made up his mind, there were about 6,000 cannon fodder in front of the attack today, and there were also 6,000 or 700 people in the ladder behind him. When the cloud echelon came up, he led his brothers to quickly ascend the city, and he could kill the officials and soldiers at the head of the city in three or two clicks. Whether it was him or the brothers in the 36th battalion, everyone knew that the guns of the officers and soldiers sounded terrifying, but in fact they were not very powerful, as long as they rushed forward with a firefight, they would definitely be able to rush to the front. It's not that they haven't seen the firecrackers before, and the distance between the two sides is close, and most of the firecrackers run backwards after losing the firecrackers, so the closer the distance, the stronger the advantage of the axemen.

Now I have listened to the words of the king himself, and he has plundered for three days! How much food and money is there? Not to mention a big city of this size, there must be tens of thousands of people in it, and a large number of wealthy businessmen gathered, not to mention their concubines and daughters, even the maids are better looking than the village girls they have seen on weekdays. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but say loudly as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, "The little brother is willing to make a military order, and this first wave will definitely be able to destroy this city!" ”

Wang Ziyong nodded, "Okay! No more military orders, take your brethren to attack this first wave! Zhang Cunmeng hurriedly surrendered his hand, turned around and went to greet his brothers. Soon I saw a group of people rushing out of the camp with a banner of "no mud and no mud", followed by six or seven hundred people, Zhang Cunmeng held a big knife in his hand, and followed behind on a horse, looking quite a famous general at first glance.

"Can you fire?" Zheng Zhihu was a little out of breath, the enemies in front of him had gathered more and more, and they were close to the city wall, he turned his head to look at Xu Wei beside him, Xu Wei didn't speak with a cold face, and after a while, he shook his head, "You can't fire." ”

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"Why not?" Zheng Zhihu pressed his treasure knife in his hand and pointed to the approaching human wall in the distance, "This has already entered three hundred steps!" Before they could fire, the rebels behind would rush up. ”

"It's okay," Xu Wei said, "we are at the head of the city, they are under the city, and they can't rush up." He still did not give the order to shoot, and continued to look coldly at the approaching enemy.

Although the city was crowded, there was no movement, and now it was the turn of the rebels under the city to feel unreasonable.

"What's going on in the city? Why not put the gun? Some people curiously commented that it was not normal for them to be so calm with the officers and soldiers at the head of the city, and they had also fought with the officers and soldiers on weekdays, and the officers and soldiers often opened fire two miles away, and ran away after the battle, and they had never been so calm as they are now. Even if the official army defended the city, they were still released a mile away, but why are they still so calm now? What are you waiting for if you don't fire yet?

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"They don't have any more medicine!" Someone suddenly shouted loudly, and the soldiers next to him nodded in agreement. "That's it!" "That's right, they must have run out of gunpowder, otherwise they would have released the gunpowder a long time ago!" "Rush! Rush up! We've won! "Kill the officer! Eat your fill! ”

The cannon fodder was even more energetic under such stimulation, and they quickly charged forward like a wind under their feet. Some of the soldiers began to feel that something was wrong, the role of cannon fodder was to lure the enemy to open fire, but the other party didn't do anything, and these cannon fodder didn't suffer any damage, wouldn't it be crowded into a pile under the city? The crowd of six or seven thousand people flocked under the city wall, and they couldn't spread it at all, and the cloud echelon behind them followed closely, and they would definitely be blocked by the crowd at a distance where they could erect the cloud ladder.

Zhang Cunmeng's hundreds of people didn't see this situation at all, from his position, he could only see the huge crowd gathering under the city wall, and the crowd carrying the cloud ladder above his head was heading in the direction of the city wall, everything was just like the plan without any problems.

The situation under the city began to get worse and worse, because the cannon fodder was originally sent to die, there were no weapons in their hands at all, and they could not pose any threat to the officers and soldiers at the head of the city with empty hands, and more and more people were crowded under the city wall, not to mention that they could not climb the city wall at all, and even blocked the cloud echelon at a distance of two hundred steps. The soldiers of the cloud echelon were so anxious that they were like ants in the heat, and they didn't even have a place to put their feet when they wanted to move forward.

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"Goal! Enemy ladder, aim! There was a loud command from the top of the city, and I saw soldiers waving quickly in the air with two small flags, one yellow and one red, in both hands, and the officers who saw the flags repeated the order loudly, and the soldiers began to poke open the paper bullet casings wrapped in bullets, light the arquebus, and then set up the Senate rifles on the battlements at the head of the city.

Seeing the muzzle of the gun aimed at themselves with a black hole, the soldiers of the cloud echelon in the distance couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, wanting to move forward and being blocked by their own people and unable to move forward, and wanting to retreat behind them was the Inspector team, if they turned around, they were likely to be mached by their own people, even if they were not cut by their own people, they would be sent to the cannon fodder team to die after the battle, so they were neither advancing nor retreating, and were blocked by the crowd two hundred steps away.

"Shoot!" With the sound of the password, the dense sound of rifle shooting sounded rhythmically. The dense bullets quickly fell among the soldiers of the cloud echelon, knocking some unlucky guys to the ground, many of the cloud ladders also fell to the ground one by one because the soldiers who carried them fell to the ground, and the soldiers next to them hurriedly stepped forward and tried to lift the cloud ladder, making the cloud echelon a mess. The sound of gunfire also frightened the cannon fodder gathered by the hedgehogs under the city, although none of them were shot, but because of the dense shooting just now, they ran in terror and crashed into a ball under the city, and many soldiers of the overseer team were also overthrown to the ground by the surging crowd and then stepped on an unknown number of feet, and died on the spot in a burst of hand and dance.

This group of thickly dressed Overseer and Cloud Echelon soldiers fell to the ground one after another, which also caused the madness of the cannon fodder, why could they wear so much and rush to their own death? So someone began to tear off the thick clothes from the corpse and put it on the body. Seeing this, the soldiers next to them waved the knives and sticks in their hands and slashed indiscriminately inside, and the cannon fodder now saw that the supervising team under the muzzle was no different from themselves, and they were going to die if they were shot, and they immediately came to the strength, some stepped forward and hugged each other, and more of them waved their fists that had been suppressed and did not dare to raise them, the number of cannon fodder was originally much more than that of the supervising team, and it was only because no one dared to resist that they were oppressed, and they came here from Shanxi under the severe cold and wind and snow along the way, Every cannon fodder has its own relatives and friends who died on the way, like wild dogs were thrown on the side of the road, there was anger burning in their hearts, and now there are people who are resisting, and naturally they burst out all of a sudden, picking up the weapons and stones that fell around them, and even some people picked up the snow and stepped on it tightly and smashed it at the Overseer. Whether it was the Overseer team or the cloud echelon, they were caught off guard for a while, and were killed by the cannon fodder who were as docile as sheep before, and the rest of them ran back in a hurry.

Seeing this, the sword and axe men who followed behind did not wait for the officers to order, raised their swords and axes and rushed towards the cannon fodder, and the two sides soon fought together under the city, leaving the Zheng Jiajun and the village warriors at the head of the city stunned one by one.

"Isn't this going to besiege the city? Why did they fight first? Zheng Zhihu said in a woodened manner, he couldn't figure out what was going on below, looking at Xu Wei, Xu Wei shook his head, "This is not unusual, they don't treat these people in front of them as people, this group of people will naturally not work for them, as long as we kill the people who are driven behind this group of people, it will naturally be chaotic." Saying that, Xu Wei pointed to the battled city and said, "Now that we are in a mess below, even if we don't fire now, they won't be able to continue attacking the city today, just see if you want to protect this group of people who were driven to death in front." ”

Zheng Zhihu looked at the people below, the cannon fodder in the chaos was divided into several groups, some were fighting with the rebels in front of them, some were shouting in the crowd to find their lost family members due to the chaos, and more were wailing towards the city under the wall, begging the officials and soldiers at the city head to open the city gate and let them in. To be honest, he also wants to open the city gate to let these people in, but now it is absolutely impossible to open the door, once the door is opened, this group of people will rush in and run around, disrupting the security in the city, and it will cause the city gate to be unable to close, and the rebellious army besieging the city is still following behind, if they can't isolate the main force of the rebellious army, they will definitely follow up as soon as the city gate is opened, which will directly lead to the fall of the city.

Zheng Zhihu could only sigh and shake his head, "How can this be protected?" They're all in a mess, and there's nothing we can do to save them. Xu Wei nodded, "I think so too, but I can still do my best." As he spoke, he gave an order to the herald beside him, "Aim at the sword and axe hand behind the cloud echelon, and fire three volleys!" Preparation! The herald hurriedly waved the signal flag, and the officer's good bell sounded everywhere on the city wall, "Target knife and axeman, prepare for a salvo!" Aim! ”

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The riflemen's bullets were still reloaded half a minute after the first volley, but because they didn't get the order to shoot, let alone the order to fire freely, they were just waiting, and there was such an incredible reversal that they didn't know what to do. Now that the officer's command was finally sounded, they excitedly raised their rifles, checked the arquebuses at the swordsmen who were pouring in from below, and then began to take aim with bated breath.

Of course, the rebel army under the city could see the changes in the city, the rapidly waving signal flags, the hot air spewing from the mouths of the soldiers, and the smoke that had not been blown away by the cold wind when the previous salvo was raised, all made them feel nervous, at this moment those long firebolts began to turn into black holes in their eyes, there was nothing more terrifying than this scene, and immediately some people began to stagnate, wanting to turn around and flee, the soldiers who supervised the battle roared, and were about to drive these sword and axe men forward, Suddenly, a dense burst of shooting was heard again at the head of the city, and another burst of gunpowder smoke rose from the city like a dark cloud, accompanied by a large amount of firelight.

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